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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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In the days of my youth, when I first took cognizance of...no, not books really, but rather what is called literature, I desperately wanted to know what set the great novels apart from the merely good. I paid the closest attention to professors, editors, theorists and other arbiters of taste, trying to figure out what made them attack certain works, pra…

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